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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 30.176

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 30.176

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [30.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176)

prāyaṇamu evottaraṃ navarcaṃ bhavati  
abhipūrvamevaitatprāṇaiḥ samṛdhyamānā yanti  
ā te dakṣaṃ mayobhuvam  
iti paryāso bhavati | prajānāṃ dhṛtyai paśūnāmupasthityai  
tadāhuryatsamaṃ kastṛṇasyāgraṃ sarpati | kva sa tapo bhavatīti  
utpakṣiṇaḥ patantītyāhuḥ  
kathamapakṣā bhindata iti  
pakṣiṇīriva vā etā yāssamānaprāyaṇāssamānodayanāḥ  
etābhirvā etadahaḥ pakṣi kriyata | etābhirutpataty | etābhistrayastriṃśaṃ  
stomaṃ pratyudyacchati  
pakṣī pāpmānaṃ tarati | pakṣī śriyamaśnute ya evaṃ veda preti panamānasya  
prathametyuttamaivamiva hyetadahaḥ  
tasmādvayassamyakpakṣābhyāmevaite  
caturviṃśa stomo bhavati  
caturviṃśatyardhamāso vai saṃvatsaraḥ  
ardhamāsaśa evaitatsaṃvatsare pratitiṣṭhanto yanti  
atho caturviṃśatyakṣarā vai gāyatrī  
tejo brāhmavarcasaṃ gāyatrī tejasyevaitadbrahmavarcase pratitiṣṭhanto yanti

> The introductory rite indeed is the subsequent nine-verse hymn;  
> successively thriving through breaths they proceed.  
> "Thy capacity that brings delight..."—  
> this is the closing verse, for the preservation of offspring, for the presence of cattle.  
> Regarding this they say: "When he crawls evenly along the tip of the spear-grass, where does his heat/ascetic toil go?"  
> They say: "Those with wings fly up.  
> How do the wingless break through?"  
> Indeed, those having the same introductory rite and the same concluding rite are like winged ones;  
> by these, this day is made winged; by these it flies up; by these it takes up the thirty-three-fold stoma.  
> Winged, he crosses beyond evil; winged, he attains prosperity, who knows thus. 'Forward' is the first \[verse\] of the Pavamāna \[hymn\], and it is as if the highest for this day.  
> Therefore birds \[fly\] properly with their two wings.  
> It is a twenty-four-fold stoma;  
> the year indeed consists of twenty-four half-months;  
> half-month by half-month they proceed, establishing themselves in the year.  
> Moreover, the Gāyatrī has twenty-four syllables;  
> Gāyatrī is brilliance and spiritual luster; establishing themselves in brilliance and spiritual luster they proceed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p1)

trayo vaiśvānarā atirātrā atirātrā dvādaśāhe kāryā ityāhuḥ

> They say: "Three Vaiśvānara Atirātras should be performed in the twelve-day rite."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p2)

prāṇaḥ prathamo vaiśvānaro'pāno dvitīyo | vyānastṛtīyaḥ

> Prāṇa is the first Vaiśvānara, apāna the second, vyāna the third.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p3)

vāgvā eṣā pratatā yaddvādaśāhaḥ

> This twelve-day rite is speech stretched out.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p4)

tāṃ tvayi vicchindyuḥ

> They might cut it off in you.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p5)

tāṃ hāryalaḥ kāhoḷirupeyāya tryanīkā vijityeti

> Aryala Kāhoḷi approached it, saying: "Having conquered with three fronts..."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p6)

tamu ha brāhmaṇa uvācānuṣṭhyā prāṇānupāgāt

> A Brahmin said to him: "Properly he approached the breaths;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p7)

vi vācamacchaitsīditi

> he cut speech off."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p8)

tasya ha tatkulaṃ vyeva cicchindyuḥ

> They indeed completely cut off his family.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p9)

tāṃ hāryalaḥ kāhoḷirupeyāya tryanīkā vijityeti

> Aryala Kāhoḷi approached it, saying: "Having conquered with three fronts..."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p10)

tamu ha brāhmaṇa uvācānuṣṭhyā prāṇānupāgāt

> A Brahmin said to him: "Properly he approached the breaths;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p11)

vi vācamacchaitsīditi

> he cut speech off."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p12)

tasya ha tatkulaṃ vyeva cicchide

> His family was indeed cut off.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p13)

jyoktu haiva jijīva

> Yet he lived for a long time.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p14)

tadu ha paścevānusaṃtāyayāṃcakre

> And later on he caused it to be connected continuously.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [30.176.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.30.176.p15)

mūrdhānaṃ divo aratiḥ pṛthivyā

> "Head of heaven, navel/spoke of the earth..."—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.30.176) — English, machine translation

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